Asian Studies Centre

Radical Deconstruction of Pakistani Masculinity

03 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Adeel Khan speaks at the "New Directions in Studies of Pakistan: Politics, Culture, & History" workshop on 20 April 2018.

Educational Policies, Economic Agendas and Social Mobility in Pakistan

03 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Arif Naveed speaks at the "New Directions in Studies of Pakistan: Politics, Culture, & History" workshop on 20 April 2018.

Caricaturing the Military in Pakistan

03 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Saadia Gardezi speaks at the "New Directions in Studies of Pakistan: Politics, Culture, & History" workshop on 20 April 2018.

A Feminist Punjabiyat: The Poetry of Amrita Pritam and Nasreen Anjum Bhatti

03 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sara Kazmi speaks at the "New Directions in Studies of Pakistan: Politics, Culture, & History" workshop on 20 April 2018.

A Feminist Punjabiyat: The Poetry of Amrita Pritam and Nasreen Anjum Bhatti

03 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sara Kazmi speaks at the "New Directions in Studies of Pakistan: Politics, Culture, & History" workshop on 20 April 2018.

Archaeology in Pakistan: A Colonial Past and an Uncertain Future

03 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hadiqa Khan speaks at the "New Directions in Studies of Pakistan: Politics, Culture, & History" workshop on 20 April 2018.

Contemporary Buddhist practice and the (de)gendering of Chinese nationalisms

02 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sharon Wesoky speaks at the "Interrogating Buddhism and Nationalism" Workshop on 28 January 2018

Toward a Modern Indonesian Buddhism: The Buddhist Nationalism of Ashin Jinarakkhita

02 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jack Meng-Tat Chia speaks at the "Interrogating Buddhism and Nationalism" Workshop on 27 January 2018

Modern Nationalism's Unanticipated Effects on Japanese Buddhism: Soka Gakkai as a 'Mimetic Nation-State'

29 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Levi McLaughlin speaks at the 'Interrogating Buddhism and Nationalism' workshop 28 January 2018.

Modern Nationalism's Unanticipated Effects on Japanese Buddhism: Soka Gakkai as a 'Mimetic Nation-State'

29 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Levi McLaughlin speaks at the 'Interrogating Buddhism and Nationalism' workshop 28 January 2018.

Authoritative Ideals: variations in the use of 'nationalism' among Buddhist activists in Sri Lanka and Myanmar

29 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Neal Apel speaks at the 'Interrogating Buddhism and Nationalism' Workshop on 27 January 2018.

In Pursuit of Happiness: Interrogating Bhutan's Buddhist Cultural Nationalism in an International Perspective

29 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Dipyaman Chakrabarti speaks at the 'Interrogating Buddhism and Nationalism' Workshop on 27 January 2018.

The Pilgrimage to Saraburi and the Ayutthayan Political Community, 1610-1767

29 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

John Smith speaks at the 'Interrogating Buddhism and Nationalism' Workshop on 27 January 2018.

Peopling Policy Processes? Methodological Populism in the Bangladesh Health and Education Sectors

25 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

David Lewis speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 15 May 2018

Harem Histories and Princely Politics: Tipu Sultan, the Family and East India Company Rule

21 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Margot Finn speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 24 April 2018.

Radicalizing liberalism: the ideological inversions of Islamic liberalism and moderation in Malaysian politics

21 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Carlo Bonura speaks at the Southeast Asia Seminar on 25 April 2018.

Economic Mobility, Islamic Piety and Caste: Ashrafization in Pakistani Punjab

21 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Muhammad Ali Jan speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 1 May 2018.

The Forgotten Histories of Indian International Relations

20 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Martin Bayly speaks at the International Relations of India Seminar Series

Liberty, Equality, and Alienation

20 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Akeel Bilgrami speaks at St Antony's College on 8 June 2018

Why I Am a Hindu

20 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Shashi Tharoor speaks at St Antony's College on 6 June 2018

The Naga Serpent in Malay Divination

18 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Farouk Yahya speaks at the Southeast Asia Seminar on 17 January 2018 The naga is a deified serpent that is a major part of the belief system of many S...

Burma Studies amidst the Rohingya Crisis

18 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Farewell lecture for the Aung San Suu Kyi Senior Research Fellow in Modern Burmese Studies, Matthew J. Walton The field of Burma Studies has expanded ...

Opposition Politics in India

06 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Salman Khurshid speaks at St Antony's College on 28 February 2018 Speaker: Salman Khurshid Former Minister of External Affairs, Former Minister of L...

The Pakistan-China Corridor: Impacts on Regional Stability

06 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Muhammad Samrez Salik speaks at St Antony's College on 8th March 2018 Can the China Pakistan Economic Corrridor (CPEC) affect regional stability and t...

International Influences on Domestic Policy-Making in China: The 2018 Chun-tu Hsueh Distinguished Lecture

06 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jane Duckett gives the 2018 Chun-tu Hsueh Distinguished Lecture This lecture examines 21st-century social policies and what they tell us about Chinese...

Thailand's Post-2014 Foreign Policy: Riding on the International Trend

29 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Pavin Chachavalpongpun speaks at the Southeast Asia Seminar on 8 November 2017. Thai foreign policy is traditionally shaped by the changing internatio...

'God knows this is a chronic, protracted situation': The Myanmar military's war on IDPs in Kachin and northern Shan states

28 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

David Baulk, Mandy Sadan and Kai Htang Lashi speak at St Antony's College on 2 November 2017 As the world watches the Myanmar military decimate the co...

Understanding Indonesia's Post-Independence Elite: Data from the Constitutional Assembly

28 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Syahrul Hidayat and Kevin W. Fogg speak at the Southeast Asia Seminar on 25 October 2017

The Sweatshop Regime: Garments, Exploitation, and labouring Bodies made in India

28 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Alessandra Mezzadri speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 7 November 2017 Drawing from Marxian and feminist insights, this presentation, based on a rece...

The Age of Fasad: Jihad, Piety and Liturgical Islam in the Indian Ocean (1500-1750)

28 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Yasser Arafath speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 10 October 2017 As the entry of the Portuguese opened up a turbulent time in the Indian Ocean, Musl...

The Untouchable Citizen

28 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Keith Fernandes speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 6 June 2017 Exploring the emotional terrain of the citizenship experiences of groups in Goa ...

India Conquered and Unconquered: The Chaos of Empire and the End of British power in India

27 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Wilson speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 16 May 2017 Histories of the British empire in India often present it as a stable and effective form of...

Jamal al-din al-Afghani and Syed Ahmad Khan: Reform, Rivalry, and Heresy in late 19th century India

27 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Teena Purohit speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 30 May 2017 This talk examined the writings of Jamal al-din al-Afghani (1838-1897) with particular a...

Populism as a Global Form: A Roundtable Conversation

27 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia), Shruti Kapila (Cambridge) and Saeed Naqvi (Foreign Correspondent and Author) speak in Oxford on 2 June 2017

Scribes, Paper and the Formation of the Colonial State in North India, 1780-1840

27 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hayden J. Bellenoit speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 23 May 2017 The transition to colonialism in South Asian history has been a vibrant and hotly ...

Nihilism in the 21st Century: A Conversation with Pankaj Mishra, Shruti Kapila and David Priestland

27 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Pankaj Mishra, Shruti Kapila and David Priestland speak at St Antony's College on 3 May 2017 Shruti Kapila lectures at the Faculty of History and is a...

An Eminent Victorian: Gandhi and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the 19th Century

27 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Dilip M. Menon speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 25 April 2017 Gandhi’s lauded text Hind Swaraj is born of and located within the 19th century cri...

The Unmaking of an Imperial Army: The Indian Army in World War II

27 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Tarak Barkawi speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 7 March 2017 The shock of repeated defeats, massive expansion, and the pressures of operations on mu...

The Militarisation of the Chinese Citizen: the Impact of Japan

27 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Christopher Hughes speaks at the China Centre on 3 March 2017 This presentation discusses how militarism was used to subordinate the modern idea of ci...

An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

27 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Shashi Tharoor speaks at St Antony's College on 1 March 2017 Notable both as a politician and a writer, Shashi Tharoor is currently serving his second...

The British High Commission in Pakistan 1947-65: Role and History

13 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Talbot speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 21 November 2017 The paper examines the roles of three influential heads of the British High Commission...

The Political Economy of Business-State Deals in Indian States

13 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Kunal Sen speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 28 November 2017 India has historically performed badly in the World Bank’s Doing Business Indicators ...

My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal

13 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Avinash Paliwal speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 20 February 2018. The archetype of 'my enemy’s enemy is my friend', India's political and econom...

Farmers Matter in New India but not the Same Way: Political Settlement, Discontinuous Agrarian Policy and Class-Formations

13 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sejuti Das Gupta speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 6 March 2018. With cultural nationalism and symbolic politics holding the media attention, the si...

Civil Resistance: The Originality of Gandhi

13 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Romila Thapar, Faisal Devji, Gautham Shiralagi and Adam Roberts speak at St Antony's College on 16 October 2017 An event held under the auspices of St...

Money, Enticements, Modernity: Indian Elite Women between Anxiety and Privilege

13 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Parul Bhandari speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 27 February 2018 Parul Bhandari is currently a Visiting Scholar at St Edmund’s College and the Ce...

Is Myanmar's 'Buddhist nationalist' movement (also) a religious reform movement?

28 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew J Walton, Ma Khin Mar Mar Kyi and Aye Thein speak at the Southeast Asia Seminar on 14 February 2018. Myanmar's formal religious authority, the...

Querying the Cosmopolitan in Sri Lankan and Indian Ocean History

28 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Zoltan Biedermann and Alan Strathern speak at the South Asia Seminar on 6 February 2018. The presenters reflect on their proposal to draw Sri Lanka in...

Ambivalence, Ambiguity and Alienation: Making Sense of 'Tension' in North India

19 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Raphael Susewind speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 13 February 2018 How can we understand 'tension', the experience of rigidity that often underpins...

Hindu Militarism, P.D. Tandon and the Politics of Scale in 1940s Uttar Pradesh

16 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

William Gould speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 21 February 2017 There are two broad trends in historical scholarship on partition: On the one hand,...

Subaltern Counter-Publics: Dalits and Missionary Christianity in Kerala

16 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sanal Mohan speaks at the South Asia Seminar Missionary Christianity in Kerala, contrary to the received notions in social sciences, offered a new lan...

Buddhism, Politics and Political Thought in Myanmar

14 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew J Walton (St Antony's) in discussion with Gustaaf Houtman (Mandalay) In Buddhism, Politics and Political Thought in Myanmar, the first book to...

Hindu Militarism, P.D. Tandon and the Politics of Scale in 1940s Uttar Pradesh

14 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

William Gould speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 21 February 2017 There are two broad trends in historical scholarship on partition: On the one hand,...

Positioning Myanmar as an attractive new investment destination in Southeast Asia

06 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sufian Jusoh speaks at the Southeast Asia Seminar. Myanmar or Burma has had its first fully contested general election in 2016, leading the formation ...

The Colloquy between Muhammad and Saytan: The 18th-century Bangla Iblichnama of Garibulla

06 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Tony K Stewart (Vanderbilt) give the 2017 Majewski Lecture. In 1287 b.s. (=1879/80 c.e.) a short Bangla work was published in Calcutta under the title...

Britain's Anglo-Indians: The Invisibility of Assimilation

05 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Rochelle Almeida speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 24 January 2017. Despite the fact that India's Anglo-Indians migrated en masse following Independ...

Gandhi's Inspiration

05 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A Panel Discussion with Professor Ruth Harris, Shrimati Kajal Sheth and Professor Sir Richard Sorabji. This event marks the UK-India Year of Culture, ...

Contesting the Liberal Order? China Rising in a World Not of Its Own Making

08 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Yongjin Zhang speaks at St Antony's College on 8 November 2016

Feminine Abandon and the abducted Woman in post-Partition Shorey Comedies

08 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Salma Siddique speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 15 November 2016

Directive Principles and the Expressive Accommodation of Ideological Dissenters in the Indian Constitution

08 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Tarunabh Khaitan speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 17 January 2017

Challenges and Opportunities for strengthening State and Regional Parliaments in Myanmar

08 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Myat The Thitsar speaks at the Southeast Asia Seminar on 9 November, 2016

Kashmir, India and the Future

29 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Omar Abdullah (Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir) speaks on 'Kashmir, India and the Future' at St Antony's College, Oxford

Re-building Democracy: Parekh on Indian nationalism and the common good

29 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Colin Tyler (Hull) speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 1st November, 2016

Concrete proposals for conflict settlements of the South China Sea disputes: Review and assessment

15 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Zheng Wang speaks at a Forum on Conflicts in the South China Sea, 19-20/10/17

Concrete proposals for the resolution of conflicts between the Philippines and China

15 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Jay Batongbacal speaks at a Forum on Conflicts in the South China Sea, 19-20/10/17

South China Sea - Vietnam's view after the July 2016 Award

15 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Nguyễn Hồng Thao speaks at a Forum on Conflicts in the South China Sea, 19-20/10/17

ASEAN and Regional Cooperation in the South China Sea

15 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Beckman speaks at a Forum on Conflicts in the South China Sea, 19-20/10/17

Functional cooperative management in the South China Sea

15 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Vivian Forbes speaks at a Forum on Conflicts in the South China Sea, 19-20/10/17

Base points and equity applicable to the resolution of conflicts

15 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Robin Cleverly speaks at a Forum on Conflicts in the South China Sea, 19-20/10/17

Will naval power close the South China Sea chapter?

15 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Alessio Patalano speaks at a Forum on Conflicts in the South China Sea, 19-20/10/17

UNCLOS and the South China Sea Conflicts

15 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Nong Hong speaks at a Forum on Conflicts in the South China Sea, 19-20/10/17

Thinking of the unthinkable

15 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Jerome Cohen speaks at a Forum on Conflicts in the South China Sea, 19-20/10/17

China’s Maritime Policies

15 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix speaks at a Forum on Conflicts in the South China Sea, 19-20/10/17

What’s wrong with the status quo?

15 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Hayton speaks at a Forum on Conflicts in the South China Sea, 19-20/10/17

What’s wrong with the status quo?

15 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Hayton speaks at a Forum on Conflicts in the South China Sea, 19-20/10/17

Between Hope and Despair: Living with Difference in Today's Indonesia

23 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Laksmi Pamuntjak gives a keynote lecture at the EuroSEAS 2017 conference in Oxford

The Sino-Thais' Right Turn towards China

04 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Kasian Tejapira gives a keynote lecture at the 2017 EuroSEAS conference

The Uniqueness of Downtown Yangon

28 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Su Su (Mandalay Technological University) speaks on 'The Uniqueness of Downtown Yangon' at the Southeast Asia Seminar on 26 October 2016

Book Launch: The Karen and the Gift of Education

26 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Book Launch: The Karen and the Gift of Education, by Pia Jolliffe

Distinction or Distraction? The politics of connoisseurship in eighteenth-century Rajput courts

19 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Williams speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 10 May 2016

Defending British India Against Napoleon: The Foreign Policy of Governor-General Lord Minto, 1807-13

13 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Aditya Das and Huw Bowen speak at St Antony's for the launch of Defending British India Against Napoleon: The Foreign Policy of Governor-General Lord ...

Fanon transformed? The new writings

13 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Young speaks at St Antony's on 'Fanon transformed? The new writings' as part of the TORCH series Rethinking the Contemporary

Of Nomadology and India(n-ness)

01 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Avishek Ray speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 11 October 2016

A Zionist Passage to India?

01 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Arie Dubnov speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 18.10.2016

A Journey from Cambodia to America and Back!

11 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Sothy Tep speaks at the Southeast Asia Seminar on 13 Februrary 2017

Feeling Untouched: Space, Emotions and Untouchability

21 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Jesús Cháirez-Garza speaks at the South Asia Seminar Untouchability in India has been widely understood as the practice of excluding, from social or...

Pakistan and Ireland: Exploring Comparative Constitutional Perspectives on Decolonisation, Dominion Status, and Beyond

21 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Mara Malagodi and Luke McDonagh speak at the South Asia Seminar In this seminar Dr Malagodi and Dr McDonagh examine the Dominion Constitutions of Paki...

The Bureaucratisation of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia: Outlines of a Collaborative Research Project

21 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Dominik M. Müller speaks at the Southeast Asia Seminar. In this talk, Dominik Mueller will present the conceptual framework of a newly established co...

Pakistan and the Late Colonial Crisis of Sovereignty

21 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

David Gilmartin speaks at the Intellectual History for Pakistan workshop on March 1st, 2016 This talk is licensed with Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0

Transforming Memory: Community Recollections of Inter-Religious Peace and Conflict in Myanmar

10 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Phyu Phyu Thi and Matthew J. Walton speak at the Southeast Asia Seminar on 1 March 2017. Research and training conducted by the Myanmar Media and Soci...

Maulana Bhashani, Marxists and Murids, c. 1957-60s

06 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Layli Uddin speaks at the Intellectual History for Pakistan workshop on March 1st, 2016

Is the Taj Mahal Pakistani? Teaching Pakistani History - Teaching Pakistanis History

06 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Akbar Zaidi speaks at the Intellectual History for Pakistan workshop on March 1st, 2016

Identity Formation through National Calendar: The Politics of Commemoration in Pakistan

06 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ali Usman Qasmi speaks at the Intellectual History for Pakistan workshop on March 1st, 2016

On the Concept of Heritage in Contemporary Pakistan

06 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Moffat speaks at the Intellectual History for Pakistan workshop on March 1st, 2016

Intizar Husain: Literature and a Sense of Historical Difference

06 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Nauman Naqvi speaks at the Intellectual History for Pakistan workshop on March 1st, 2016

Histories of the ephemeral: writing on music in the late Mughal world

28 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Katherine Butler Schofield speaks at the South Asia Seminar on March 8th, 2016 How do we write histories of the ephemeral: of affective and sensory...

On the Colonisation of India: Public Meetings, Debates and Disputes (Calcutta 1829)

16 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Chaudhuri speaks at the South Asia Seminar on a public meeting held in Calcutta, on December 15th, 1829. On December 15th , 1829, a large pu...

Tagore and the theology of the global

16 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Pradip Dutta speaks on Tagore at the South Asia Seminar Vishwabharati, the university that Tagore founded, was an early experiment in produc...

The prospects for enhancing democracy and development in the Philippines: The 2016 elections and beyond

13 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

David Timberman speaks at the Southeast Asia seminar. Drawing primarily on his own research, interviews and observations, David Timberman will addres...

Women and Conflict in India

06 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Sanghamitra Choudhury speaks at the launch of her book on Women and Conflict in India The book launched at this talk analyses the impact that prolo...